- IL: Teen arrested on charges of impersonating an ICE gang member
Source: New York Post
“A raging Illinois teen has been accused of stabbing a pregnant mother to death and knifing her pet dog during a Facebook Marketplace meetup — then setting her home ablaze, according to authorities and reports. Nedas Revuckas, 19, has been hit with a slew of charges for allegedly murdering 30-year-old Eliza Morales in her suburban Downers Grove apartment unit on Monday evening, according to police. … Revuckas faces first-degree murder, intentional homicide of an unborn child, armed robbery, aggravated arson, and animal cruelty charges in connection with the tragic killing, according to court records.” (01/29/26)
- ME: Pol Announces End to “Large-Scale” ICE Gang Activity After Talks with Shot-Caller “ICE Barbie”
Source: US News & World Report
“U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Thursday that immigration officials have ceased their ‘enhanced operations’ in the state, the site of a [gang activity] surge and more than 100 [abductions] since last week. Collins, a Republican, made the announcement after saying she had several direct communications with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. ‘There are currently no ongoing or planned large-scale ICE operations here,’ Collins said in a statement. ‘I have been urging Secretary Noem and others in the Administration to get ICE to reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state.’ The announcement came after President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in Minneapolis after a second [murder] by federal immigration agents.” (01/29/26)
- Germany: Deutsche Bank offices raided in money laundering probe
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Deutsche Bank’s offices in Frankfurt and Berlin have been raided by officials as part of an inquiry into money laundering. In a statement, the Office of the Federal Prosecutor said it was conducting an investigation, involving the Federal Criminal Police Office, into ‘unknown individuals and employees’ at Germany’s largest bank. It said Deutsche Bank had ‘maintained business relationships in the past with foreign companies’ which were suspected of ‘having been used for money laundering purposes as part of further investigations.’ … German media reported that the case carries possible links to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, a claim his lawyers say is ‘entirely false and inaccurate.'” (01/29/26)
- US appeals court says Noem’s decision to end protections for Venezuelans in US was illegal
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended legal protections that gave hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela permission to live and work in the United States. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that found Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem exceeded her authority when she ended temporary protected status for Venezuelans. The decision, however, will not have any immediate practical effect after the U.S. Supreme Court in October allowed Noem’s decision to take effect pending a final decision by the justices.” (01/29/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/01/29/noem-decision-venezuelans-appeals-court/
- Saudi and Israeli officials visit DC to discuss possible US strikes on Iran
Source: Axios
“The Trump administration is hosting senior defense and intelligence officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia for talks on Iran this week as President Trump considers military strikes, two U.S. officials and two other sources with knowledge told Axios. Trump has ordered a U.S. military buildup in the Gulf to prepare for potential military action. Israel, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region have been on high alert for days in anticipation of a U.S. strike. The Israelis came to D.C. to share intelligence on possible targets inside Iran. The Saudis, meanwhile, are highly concerned about a potential regional war and are trying to help broker a diplomatic solution.” (01/29/26)
- Italy: Ex-general gears up to launch new far-right party
Source: Politico
“Roberto Vannacci, an MEP and former general, is preparing to launch his own political party, which would formalize a break with Matteo Salvini’s League and potentially reshape the Italian far right. He announced the launch of the new party on Instagram on Wednesday. Vannacci had already registered the name and logo of the movement, Futuro Nazionale (National Future), on Jan. 24, according to trademark filings. His new project is being described by Italian media as an attempt to build an Italian version of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and create a new force that would sit to the right of Salvini.” (01/29/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-roberto-vannacci-launch-new-far-right-party
- Trump mocks Cruz likability while hinting at Supreme Court nod
Source: Houston Chronicle
“President Donald Trump reminded everyone of what some politicians have long joked — no one likes Ted Cruz — while floating his name yet again, for a potential Supreme Court nomination. ‘If I nominate Ted Cruz for the Supreme Court, the Democrats will vote for him because they want to get him the hell out,’ Trump said at an event promoting his ‘Trump accounts’ on Wednesday. ‘And the Republicans will vote for him because they want to get him the hell out, too.’ Trump shifted from discussing the federal program that allocates funds to eligible children, to spotlighting Cruz, suggesting the Texas senator could be a nominee likely to secure approval for the nation’s highest court.” (01/28/26)
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/trump-cruz-supreme-court-21320424.php
- Minneapolis firearm instructors see surge in interest amid ICE gang rampage
Source: NBC News
“At the Stock & Barrel Gun Club’s two locations near Minneapolis, the classes for people seeking a permit to carry a firearm almost always draw large crowds. ‘It’s usually in the hundreds,’ David Taylor, the club’s CEO, said. But since immigration enforcement agents flooded the city, sparking clashes in the streets and the [murders] of two protesters, interest in the classes has only grown. In just the past two weeks, Taylor said, his club has received four times the usual number of sign-ups. That does not appear to be an anomaly. Five firearm instructors in the Minneapolis area told NBC News they have seen a similar trend.” (01/29/26)
- Montenegro: Regime officials resign in sex tape scandal
Source: New York Post
“An alleged leaked sex tape featuring two prominent government officials in Montenegro — a married presidential adviser and a striking underling — has led to both politicians resigning in disgrace. Mirjana Pajković, the glamorous now-former director general for the promotion and protection of human rights at the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, announced her resignation on Friday, according to Montenegrin newspaper Pobjeda. The government has been embroiled in the sex scandal since a video was leaked online, allegedly showing Pajković engaging in sexual activity with Dejan Vukšić, the married former national security agency director and ex-adviser to President Jakov Milatović. … Pajković said her departure was due to personal reasons — but took several swipes at Vukšić, accusing him of threatening her with the tape to remain quiet.” (01/29/26)
- DOJ: We’ll get around to following Epstein files law Real Soon Now, pinky promise
Source: Axios
“The Justice Department said Tuesday it will release the full Epstein files in the ‘near term,’ after reviewing and redacting millions of pages. Blowing more than a month past its legal deadline, the DOJ still has not set a clear date on when documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will go public, as other developments with the Trump administration garner widespread attention. Hundreds of employees have reviewed the millions of materials to minimize the risk of victim-identifying information, Attorney General Pam Bondi, deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said in a Tuesday filing.” (01/28/26)
- China: Regime employees kill 11 prisoners
Source: BCC News [UK state media]
“China has executed 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, state media report. A court in Zhejiang province sentenced the Ming family members for crimes including homicide, illegal detention, fraud and operating gambling dens in September. … their scam empire came crashing down in 2023, when Myanmar authorities arrested them and handed them to China, as part of a crackdown prompted by pressure from Beijing.” (01/29/26)
- NYC: Man Rams Chabad HQ with Car, Damaging Doors
Source: US News & World Report
“A man was arrested after repeatedly crashing his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in New York City on Wednesday night while people were gathered for prayer at the deeply revered Hasidic Jewish site. No one was injured when the driver struck a door of a building in the complex before reversing and striking it several more times. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that while it was too early in the investigation to speculate on the driver’s motives, the incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime.” (01/28/26)
- McMahon: California ban on outing trans kids to parents violated federal law
Source: Fox News
“The U.S. Department of Education announced on Wednesday that a California policy allowing school districts to keep students’ gender transition from their parents violates federal law. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said a federal investigation found that California education officials ‘egregiously abused’ their authority by pressuring school districts to withhold information about students’ gender transitions from their parents. … The findings of the federal investigation could put at risk the nearly $8 billion in education funding the federal government gives the state each year if state officials do not work with the Trump administration to resolve the violations.” (01/29/26)
- Israel: Top court delays Gaza press access ruling amid years-long ban
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Israel’s Supreme Court has postponed a decision on whether to allow foreign journalists independent access to Gaza, in the latest delay of a legal battle that has stretched over a year. The court granted the government until March 31 to respond to the petition filed by the Foreign Press Association, despite state attorneys failing to provide detailed justifications beyond citing security risks. The decision extends a policy that has barred foreign correspondents from entering Gaza to report on conditions there, unless reporters are prepared to embed with the Israeli army.” (01/28/26)
- CA: Officials confirm tuberculosis outbreak at San Francisco private school
Source: SFGate
“The San Francisco Department of Public Health is investigating an active outbreak of tuberculosis at a local high school that has sickened at least three individuals. In an emailed statement to SFGATE, department officials said all students and staff at Archbishop Riordan High School are being tested for TB and they have implemented contact tracing to stop the outbreak from spreading. … Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that can cause cough, fever and weight loss, and can progress into severe symptoms if untreated. A person can have a latent form of the disease, where they have no symptoms, or active TB, where they have symptoms and are infectious. The latent form can switch to active at any time.” (01/28/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-tuberculosis-school-21320252.php
- TX: State employees kill prisoner
Source: United Press International
“Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States’ first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for the 1998 double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. Charles Victor Thompson was executed by lethal injection at the penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. He was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST, the state’s Department of Criminal Justice told UPI in an emailed statement.” (01/28/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/01/28/Texas-execution-Charles-Victor-Thomas/1531769651734/
- The Justifications For War With Iran Keep Changing
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone“First it’s nukes, then it’s conventional missiles, then it’s protesters, and now it’s back to nukes again. Kinda seems like war with Iran is itself the objective, and they’re just making up excuses to get there. As the US moves war machinery to the middle east and holds multi-day war games throughout the region, President Trump and his handlers have been posting threats to the Iranian government on social media warning them to ‘make a deal’ on nuclear weapons.” (01/29/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/29/the-justifications-for-war-with-iran-keep-changing/
- We Can’t Repeat It Enough: Privatize the Roads
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Patrick Carroll“The libertarian position on driver’s licenses, on drunk driving, on human-driven cars, on speed limits, and every other road rule is the same as it has always been: privatize the roads and let private road owners make their own rules. If one is asked ‘What shall the government do if privatization is off the table,’ the answer is ‘Libertarian principle does not mandate a particular second-best solution, only that the right thing to do is complete privatization.’ If road privatization is thought to be undesirable for whatever reason, then that is understandable — but then the person with this position is simply not a libertarian on this question.” (01/29/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/we-cant-repeat-it-enough-privatize-the-roads
- The Murderers Among Us
Source: CounterPunch
by Eve Ottenberg“Since Donald Trump took office in 2025, ICE has murdered at least 34 people in the U.S. It has deported 623,900 people. Those are not negligible numbers. They are the beginning – mark that, the beginning – of the ethnic cleansing of America. They are the first shot across the bow of any contraption or conglomeration that might oppose shipping nonwhites out of country. There are 68 million Hispanics in the U.S., and it’s safe to say that Scharfuhrer Stephen Miller wants to deport them all. Will Trump’s henchmen limit their ambitions to Hispanics? I doubt it.” (01/29/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/29/the-murderers-among-us/
- Conservative “Judicial Activists” vs. ICE
Source: Reason
by Damon Root“Why a conservative judge’s ‘patience is at an end’ over Trump’s immigration crackdown.” (01/29/26)
https://reason.com/2026/01/29/conservative-judicial-activists-vs-ice/
- After Alex Pretti’s Murder, it’s Clear That MAGA Media Views White Liberals as Race Traitors
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod“MAGA is committed to the belief that the people ICE is pursuing are inherently bad and that therefore opposing ICE is standing with criminals and rapists against the American people.” (01/29/26)
- The Forgotten Casualties in Trump’s Wars
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow“The world can be an ugly place, and Washington sometimes faces terrible choices. However, the U.S. president possesses neither the moral nor legal authority to wander the globe randomly imposing his will and killing anyone in the way. Someone claiming to be a peacemaker should stop irresponsibly visiting death and destruction upon other people. Even in Venezuela.” (01/29/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-forgotten-casualties-in-trumps-wars/
- The Language We Use
Source: Townhall
by Cal Thomas“[E]scalating and using vile rhetoric is guaranteed to make things worse. It can also fire up one’s political base and raise money. On this latter point, I have two stories. One involved a pastor of a large Florida church who had decided to dabble in politics. He told me of the criticism he had received for sending out so many negative letters about how he saw the condition of the country. He decided to try a positive letter and described the response this way: ‘No one sent any money.’ … You might make money and shore up your base by denouncing others and using foul language, but the result is a deeper and wider divide and a hatred of fellow Americans.” (01/29/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2026/01/29/cal-thomas-the-language-we-use-n2670260
- The World Files for Economic Divorce from America
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman“On Monday India and the European Union concluded negotiations on a breakthrough free trade agreement. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission — the EU’s executive branch — called it ‘the mother of all deals.’ That description is somewhat over the top. Yet the agreement is in fact historic and important in ways that go beyond economics. For it shows that the world is becoming ever more estranged from an erratic, abusive United States. In other words, other countries are moving, step by step, toward an economic divorce from America.” (01/29/26)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-world-files-for-economic-divorce
- Don’t Push the Policy Button!
Source: The Daily Economy
by Daniel J Smith“In Bill Cotter’s beloved children’s book series, Don’t Push the Button! a mischievous monster named Larry presents young readers with a tantalizing big red button, sternly warning them not to press it. Of course, the allure proves too strong for toddlers, who gleefully ignore the advice, unleashing a cascade of silly chaos – turning Larry into a polka-dotted elephant or summoning a horde of dancing bananas. The books’ humor lies in the predictable disobedience, but the underlying lesson is clear: some temptations are simply too powerful to resist.” (01/29/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/dont-push-the-policy-button/
- Social media as state media
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, & Noel Sims“Silicon Valley was once viewed as a tool for liberation. Now, from blocking apps to banning groups, it is helping the White House suppress dissent.” (01/29/26)
- Making sense of historical data
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak“In order to make the data ‘talk,’ economists utilize a range of statistical methods that vary from highly complex models to a simple display of historical data. It is generally held that by means of correlations, one could organize the historical data into a useful body of information, which in turn could serve as the basis for the assessment of the state of the economy. Things are however, not as straightforward as they seem to be.” (01/29/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/01/making-sense-of-historical-data/
- Why Israeli counterterrorism tactics are showing up in Minnesota
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols“Over the past two decades, U.S. immigration officials have maintained a close relationship with the Israeli government. This collaboration has included trips ferrying high-level U.S. law enforcement officials around Israel, joint training for immigration officers, and technology transfers that have put sophisticated surveillance capabilities in the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The result has been an increasing mind meld between security agencies in Israel and the United States.” (01/29/26)
- A Europe grateful for reproofs
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by the editorial board“Amid criticism from friendly leaders, the EU holds an emergency summit to find ways to boost innovation and productivity. Its leaders even thank the continent’s bashers.” (01/28/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0128/A-Europe-grateful-for-reproofs
- Cutsinger’s Solution: The Price of Education
Source: Econlog
by Bryan Cutsinger“Question: Is the following true or false? Explain your reasoning. If the quantity of higher education services supplied does not rise with the price of those services, i.e., if supply is perfectly inelastic, then subsidizing the demand for higher education services will primarily benefit universities and their employees. Solution: I use this question in my microeconomic principles class to get my students to think about the actual beneficiaries of a real-world policy that many of them likely believe is intended to benefit students.” (01/29/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/cutsingers-solution-the-price-of-education
- Greenland Gambit: How Trump’s Arctic Ambition Shattered the Atlantic Alliance
Source: Antiwar.com
by Harris Jenner“A specter is haunting the transatlantic alliance – not from the East, but from within. What began as a seemingly quixotic real estate fantasy has evolved, through weeks of escalating pressure, into the most profound stress test of U.S.-European relations since the Cold War. President Donald Trump’s campaign to acquire Greenland has laid bare a stark reality: the alliance’s most powerful member is willing to wield coercion against its own partners, treating sovereignty as a transactional commodity. While an eleventh-hour tactical retreat has pulled the world back from the brink of immediate conflict, the crisis has illuminated a fatal flaw in the alliance’s foundation.” (01/29/26)
- Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’s Struggle Against ICE
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Frank Miroslav“For some time, I was thinking about writing a review of Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State, which helped inspire me to become an anarchist back in 2016, to see how it aged in the decade since it was published. But then ICE invaded the city of Minneapolis. And then the citizens fought back in a way that is seemingly a textbook application of what Carson wrote about in that book, to the point that if a second edition is ever published, I would not at all be surprised if it had an entire subsection in the appendix of the book, Case Study in Networked Resistance.” (01/28/26)
- ICE Arrested Father Who Cared for His Ill Son — Then Denied His Request to Attend Son’s Funeral
Source: The Intercept
by Fatima Khan“When Maher Tarabishi got a phone call from his family on January 23, he expected an update on his son’s health. Tarabishi had been held for three months at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, and his 30-year-old son Wael’s health had been on the decline. Still, Tarabishi was hoping for a full recovery. The news, though, was not good: Wael had passed away. Maher Tarabishi was in disbelief, breaking down on the phone, according to an account of the call from his daughter-in-law Shahd Arnaout.” (01/28/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/ice-family-funeral-texas-maher-tarabishi/
- What the surging price of gold reveals about the new world disorder
Source: spiked
by Tom Bailey“The price of gold has been surging in recent years. On Monday, it broke through a new milestone of $5,000 per ounce, just three months after the yellow metal hit $4,000 per ounce. For perspective, two years ago, the price of gold was only $2,000 per ounce. Indeed, since the start of this decade, the price of gold has delivered a better return than the Nasdaq 100 – an index of large, mostly tech, US companies. This isn’t normal.” (01/28/26)
- Here’s ONE silver lining to the city’s moronic micromanaging of delivery apps
Source: New York Post
by the editorial board“Why, oh why, is the city’s political elite obsessed with micromanaging food-delivery apps? So much so that it waxes indignant even when it’s simply reversing its own diktats to the (minor) industry. A new law now going into effect forces the apps to put the ‘option’ to tip your deliveryman before checkout. At least two main apps — UberEats and DoorDash — presented the gratuity screen after you got your food, a practice they adopted to comply with previous guidance from City Hall. (Not to mention: Tipping the delivery guy when he delivers worked just fine for decades.) And of course this follows years of City Council laws imposing a hefty minimum wage on this casual work.” (01/28/27)
- BUY GOLD … But Be Prepared For What the Government Might Do To It In A Dollar Crisis
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by David Rehak“Gold is up at record highs and now silver is starting to make strides too. This is great. But just keep in mind that the government will try to control it as much as possible, especially in an economic ‘dollar crisis.'” (01/28/26)
- The immigration test of democracy isn’t just in Minneapolis — it’s also in Orange County
Source: Orange County Register
by Jody Agius Vallejo“Immigration has become a fundamental test of our democracy — of whether constitutional rights still limit government power to violate our civil liberties, and of whether that power can be turned inward against the very people it is meant to serve. When federal immigration authority is used to justify secrecy, militarization, and violence in everyday life, the question is whether our constitutional protections still hold at all. Recent events in Minneapolis make this painfully clear. … What is happening in Minneapolis matters because it reflects a broader pattern. It shows what it looks like when military-style federal power is turned inward.” (01/28/26)
- The Killing of Alex Pretti Is a Reminder That All State Laws Are Backed Up by Violence
Source: Reason
by Christian Britschgi“If enforcing a law isn’t worth killing someone over, it probably shouldn’t be a law.” (01/28/26)
- Trump and the Great Midwestern Divide
Source: The Bulwark
by Lyz“His Iowa visit highlights the divergent realities occupied by his supporters and the growing opposition.” (01/28/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-great-midwestern-divide-clive-iowa
- Gregory Bovino’s Legacy: Lies, Violence, and Unchecked Federal Power
Source: Reason
by Autumn Billings“Although Bovino is gone, immigration officials will continue to disregard rights and the rule of law under President Donald Trump.” (01/28/26)
https://reason.com/2026/01/28/gregory-bovinos-legacy-lies-violence-and-unchecked-federal-power/
- Patriot! Here’s How to Identify a Domestic Terrorist
Source: The Atlantic
by Alexandra Petri“The terrorists are the ones without masks. They’re the ones yelling ‘No!’ or ‘Stop!’ or ‘Shame!’ or blowing whistles. Sometimes they brandish cameras at federal agents. Sometimes they wantonly swallow whole canisters of pepper spray. These are just some of their diabolical tactics. The terrorists are the ones who call this place home (that’s what makes it domestic terror). The terrorists are the ones who are dressed as clergy. Some of them, confusingly, are even ordained as clergy. As you look, ask yourself: Is that a Minnesota nice person (not even guaranteed to be ‘nice!’) or a Minnesota ICE person? (The former is a terrorist; the latter basically has total immunity.) Is he a nurse who works for the VA, or a masked man shooting him in the back? Remember, the terrorist is the one trying to protect his neighbor.” (01/28/26)
- He Served Those Who Served: Portrait of a Man Named Pretti
Source: Liberal Currents
by Justin Briley“Our nation never called him a hero. He didn’t serve himself, he served those who served. But I think that you can learn a lot about someone through a study of their enemies: First, a preening octogenarian dilettante in clownface with little more than the skill to keep talking, just keep talking, when shame would’ve already killed better men. It turns out that in this nation of broken heroes you can rise quite high with so little, provided you have a sufficient amount of money to start. Then, the incarnation of daddy issues as a concept, soft at the jowls and so ashamed of where he’s from that he’s also ashamed of where he pretends to be from. … Next, a worm who never should have been born and whose every day spent breathing is an insult to the universal commonwealth of all humanity.” (01/28/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/he-served-those-who-served-portrait-of-a-man-named-pretti/
- Democrats Determined to Squander Advantage on DHS Funding
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen“Democrats are succeeding in getting a showdown on new rules for immigration enforcement. But will those rules amount to anything?” (01/29/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/01/29/congress-democrats-determined-squander-advantage-dhs-funding/
- Pam Bondi Tries New Intimidation Tactic With Protester Arrest Photos
Source: The New Republic
by Edith Olmsted“The attorney general is posting photos of people in Minnesota who have been arrested but not convicted.” (01/28/26)
https://newrepublic.com/post/205842/pam-bondi-minnesota-protester-arrest-photos
- Unsealed records reveal officials targeted Khalil, Ozturk, Mahdawi solely for protected speech
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Jacob Gaba“For months, the Trump administration has tried to justify its targeting of prominent pro-Palestinian activists like Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, and Moshen Mahdawi by insinuating that the reasons for their pending deportation went beyond mere speech. But newly unsealed records confirm the Trump administration’s legal basis for targeting these individuals was never unlawful conduct. Instead, the administration targeted them solely for protected speech — and expected a First Amendment fight from the start.” (01/28/26)
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 01/29/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Erupts at GOPers over Kristi Noem as Her Support Suddenly Slips.” (01/29/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205843/trump-erupts-gopers-kristi-noem-support-suddenly-slips
- Cato Daily Podcast, 01/29/26
Source: Cato Institute
‘Why Propping Up Maduro’s Allies Won’t Save Venezuela.” (01/29/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/why-propping-maduros-allies-wont-save-venezuela
- Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, 01/29/26
- Quillette Podcast, episode 322
Source: Quillette
“Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, ‘Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'” (01/29/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/01/29/podcast-322-the-demise-of-private-life-tiffany-jenkins/
- Politics Politics Politics, 01/28/26
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“What Do Dems Want After Minneapolis? A Deep Dive into CBS and Modern Media (with Bill Scher and Chris Cillizza).” (01/28/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/what-do-dems-want-after-minneapolis
- Parallax Views with JG Michael, 01/28/26
Source: Parallax Views with JG Michael
“Reviewing Trump 2.0’s First Year w/ Amb. Patrick Theros.” (01/28/26)
- Half the Answer, episode 62
Source: Liberal Currents
“ICE Flights and Accountability in Journalism.” (01/28/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-answer-62-ice-flights-and-accountability-in-journalism/
- The Libertarian Angle, 01/28/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Our Immigration Police State.” (01/28/26)
- NPR Politics Podcast, 01/28/26
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Internal review contradicts Trump administration on Alex Pretti shooting.” (01/28/26)
- LPA Solidarity Stream, episode 14
Source: LP Alliance
“Lessons from Minneapolis: Building Movement Ecosystems w/ Cara Schulz.” (01/28/26)
- The Bulwark Podcast, 01/28/26
Source: The Bulwark
“MAGA’s Tough Guy Act Collapsed in Minneapolis (w/ Adam Serwer & Bobby Pulido).” (01/28/26)
- Fountainhead Forum, episode 413
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Maria Lobo Murga on how Javier Milei has made life in Argentina better.” (01/28/26)